Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, left, and President Richard M. Nixon after Kissinger used to be sworn is because the 56th secretary of state in the East Room of the White Space on Sept. 22, 1973. (Related Press) Information that the president-elect’s son, Donald Trump Jr., met with pro-Russian Syrian opposition in Paris, or that…

New U.S. electorate wave flags all the way through a unique Flag Day naturalization rite on the New York Ancient Society on June 14. (Bebeto Matthews/AP) From suggesting that every one Muslims be banned from getting into the USA to the declare that various Mexicans getting into the rustic are violent legal offenders, President-elect Donald Trump has…

(Agence France-Presse) Many self-identified Republicans vote towards their very own self-interest, or so say numerous outstanding pundits. The Republican Birthday celebration, which favors slicing federal spending, has a tendency to do properly in states that are maximum reliant on federal spending. You’ll be able to see this in a graph by way of New York…

Swaziland flags on show amongst artwork and curios. (Cédric Duchamp/Flickr CC) Fifty years because the United Countries enshrined the proper to freely compile, how free are citizens in African nations to join any political group they would like? The solution will depend on the country, in accordance to a dispatch launched nowadays via Afrobarometer. The…

Facebook is beneath fireplace for partisan fake news. (Related Press) Many commentators argue that the 2016 marketing campaign noticed strangely top ranges of partisan animosity, incorrect information and offensive rhetoric, bringing up social media as a key wrongdoer. A contemporary NPR piece means that the very DNA of web sites like Twitter makes them “antithetical…

Adolf Hitler of Germany and Benito Mussolini of Italy meet on June 14, 1934. (Related Press) The upward push of right-wing populism in Europe and america, accentuated via the election of Donald Trump, has ended in rising fears about the potential for new types of authoritarianism. On the lookout for perception, many commentators have became…

President-elect Donald Trump. (Alice Li/The Washington Publish) Amid the hypothesis on whether or not the electoral school will refuse to make Donald Trump president, many Trump fighters are pinning their hopes on one obvious reality: Hillary Clinton’s sizable win in the popular vote. Clinton’s lead now exceeds 2.eight million votes (greater than 2.1 % of the…

“I voted in Arlington” stickers are piled up at a polling position on Nov. eight. (Alex Wong/Getty Photographs) The polls have been off this election through about 2 proportion issues, and it kind of feels that a lot of this used to be from differential nonresponse: Survey respondents incorporated too many Clinton supporters, even after…

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